I make fried modak at home from whole wheat flour with dry coconut or fresh coconut stuffing with jaggery (gud/gul).For covering of this modak I used whole wheat flour with Semolina(rava/suji) and no maida in it.Semolina makes this modak crispy. This are the traditional Modak prepared in Marathi homes .Maharashtrians prepare this modak during ganesh chaturthi festival or on any chaurthi for the prasad for lord ganesha.

Directions

For covering

Mix all the ingredients except water mentioned in covering ingredients …. warm ghee should be rubbed nicely with the flour and semolina…

whole wheat flour , semolina, salt &ghee

add little little water and make a stiff dough… stiff dough will make the modak covering crunchy ….keep the dough aside atleast for 1- 2 hours before making modak out of it ..

For stuffing

If your using dry coconut(khopra/gola)— there is no need to cook all the ingredient …just roast the grated dry coconut to make it light brown …remove it from heat let it cool crushed with ir fingers …it becomes very crispy after roasting ..add all the stuffing ingredients in it ….mix it with your fingers ..ur stuffing is ready for modak

If ur using fresh coconut(naral/nariyal)—Mix all the stuffing ingredient except cashew almond powder and cardamom powder…..

Cook and stir the mixture on low or medium flame till mixture is dry

Remove it from the flame and add cardmom powder and almond cashew nut powder

For making modak

Divide the dough in 4 equal parts …. Take it on the back side of the big thali(plate) roll it into 5-6 inch diameter disc…apply ghee and dust little flour on it …fold it in half and again apply ghee and dust some flour on it fold it into triangle and roll it into little thick disc now…. take a small kattori with nice edges and cut small disc from this big disc …in this way you can make atlest 6-7 disc at a time and no need to make single puri or disc … we r folding it like paratha as we want layers in modak ….

Now take one disc and add 1 teaspoon of stuffing in it and gather the ends of this disc to form potli or a dumpling…. bring all the edges together and close the top shape and taper the top of the modak … seal the modak properly otherwise it will open while frying…

Make all the modak in this way…keep them for ½ an hour before frying …

Deep fry this modak in ghee and serve them hot to lord ganesha

Tips for deep fried modak recipe (whole wheat flour)

Semolina makes this modak very crispy

While making the modak disc follow the paratha folds which I had mentioned ..it forms nice layers in the modak covering

If you want to store this modak for some days use dry coconut instead of fresh coconut …